Carpiniello: Outdoor NHL games much happier memories for winners

12:04 AM,
Jan. 27, 2014

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These outdoor games the NHL now sprinkles across the continent might get old someday.

To be honest, the thinking here was that this might be a mistake: too many, too cold, too much at stake for the teams playing in what, to a degree, is a cocktail fraught with potential distractions and potholes (some of them in the ice, quite literally) and conditions.

The Rangers and Devils sure need points, as all the Eastern Conference teams do. And any two points or one point a team fails to get in any game could be the difference, in the end, between playoffs and no-playoffs, between firing people and keeping ...